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Women’s Tennis Begins NCAA Tournament Run Against Alabama
5/6/2021 11:23:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Match 22
No. 18 Duke (15-6, 9-4 ACC) vs. No. 43 Alabama (12-12, 3-10 SEC)
Friday, May 7 | 3 p.m. ET
Waco, Texas l Hurd Tennis Center
May 6, 2021
DURHAM, N.C. – The 18th-ranked Duke women's tennis team is set to open action at the 2021 NCAA Tournament, traveling to Waco, Texas for the first and second rounds hosted by Baylor. The Blue Devils (15-6) have been matched up with No. 43 Alabama (12-12) in the first round and will play on Friday, May 7 at 3 p.m. at the Hurd Tennis Center.
The winner of Friday's match will advance to face the winner of No. 8 seeded Baylor (23-4, 8-1 Big 12) and Texas A&M Corpus-Christi (22-4, 9-2 Southland) in the second round on Saturday at 6 p.m.
"It's very exciting being able to play NCAA's," said redshirt sophomore Georgia Drummy. "Pretty much every team wants to be playing in that tournament, as well as last year with COVID and not being able to play, our team is really pumped and excited to go out and give it our all."
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
Duke will head to its 31st consecutive and 32nd overall NCAA Tournament in search of its second title in school history. The Blue Devils are 70-30 (.700) overall in the national championships, with head coach Jamie Ashworth owning a record of 60-22 (.756) over his tenure at the helm of the program. Duke last won the NCAA Tournament in 2009 over California in College Station, Texas.
THE SERIES WITH ALABAMA
Duke and Alabama will meet for the fourth time in school history with the Blue Devils leading the series, 2-1. The two sides last met on Feb. 8, 2015 at the ITA Indoor Championships, with the Crimson Tide taking a 4-1 victory. The matchup will also mark the second clash between the two programs in the NCAA Tournament, with the Blue Devils registering a 4-0 win over the Crimson Tide in the second round at the 2001 NCAA Tournament in Durham, N.C.
ALABAMA IN THE RANKINGS
Alabama features one player – Isabella Harvison (No. 56) in the singles rankings.
WHAT WOULD BE NEXT?
If Duke advances past Alabama, the Blue Devils will face either eighth-seeded and eighth ranked Baylor (23-4, 8-1 Big 12) or Texas A&M Corpus-Christi (22-4, 9-2 Southland). In the series against Baylor, Duke leads 5-0, with the last matchup resulting in a 4-1 victory in 2013. The Blue Devils have never faced Texas A&M Corpus-Christi.
Should the Blue Devils meet Baylor in the second round, it would be the first postseason matchup between the two programs.
BAYLOR IN THE RANKINGS
The Bears are represented by three-student athletes in the singles rankings: Mel Krywoj (No. 67), Michaela Bayerlova (No. 74) and Livia Kraus (No. 112). In doubles, Krywoj/Angelina Shakhraichuk (No. 31) and Krywoj/Alicia Herrero-Linana (No. 49) are the two ranked duos.
IN THE ITA TEAM RANKINGS
The Blue Devils currently are ranked No. 18 nationally in the latest ITA ledger. Over the last four seasons, Duke has been ranked in the top-10 in 47 of the last 56 ITA rankings.
DUKE IN THE INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS
Duke features four ranked student-athletes in singles – Drummy (19), Chloe Beck (39), Meible Chi (40) and Kelly Chen (49). The Blue Devils also feature six doubles teams on the national list – Beck/Karolina Berankova are No. 9, Margaryta Bilokin/Chi at No. 10, Drummy/Berankova (No. 37), Chen/Drummy (No. 41), Beck/Chi (No. 50) and Hannah Zhao/Chi (No. 58).
EYES ON ORLANDO
No matter what occurs at this season's NCAA Tournament, the Blue Devils season will continue in Orlando, Fla., as the NCAA announced the selections for the 2021 NCAA Singles Championship and Doubles Championship. Beck, Chen and Drummy have been selected to compete in the NCAA Singles Championship, while Chi has been named the first alternate. The Blue Devils are in search of their first individual champion since Mallory Cecil won in 2009. In doubles, Beck/Berankova and Bilokin/Chi will seek the national title.
ALL-ACC HONORS
The Blue Devils were well represented in the last group of All-ACC honorees, as the league announced that Beck, Chen and Drummy were named to the second team, while Chi earned third team accolades. Beck and Drummy earned the first All-ACC honors of their collegiate careers, while Chen was named to list for the third time. Chi became just the 15th player in Blue Devils history to earn four separate All-ACC honors.
BLUE DEVILS BACK HEALTHY HEADING INTO POSTSEASON PLAY
As the Blue Devils head into the NCAA Tournament, Duke is looking for a fresh start after going through a trying stretch earlier in the season with three losses over a span of four matches from March 12-27. During this streak, the Blue Devils were without the services of a healthy Drummy and Beck due to freak injuries.
Since the duo have been back and healthy, Duke closed the regular season with wins against Boston College, Syracuse and Wake Forest and added a win over Louisville in the ACC Tournament.
CHI NETS DUKE RECORD
With her singles win on the road at Syracuse, Chi collected her 42nd all-time ACC singles win to move past Ellyse Hamlin (41) for the Duke record. Chi and Hamlin are the only two Blue Devils to reach the 40-win mark in school history for ACC play. Chi closed the regular season with another ACC victory against Wake Forest to close her career with 43 ACC singles wins.
CHI MOVING UP WINS LIST
A product of Weston, Fla., Chi currently features a 133-37 all-time singles mark, which is good for fifth on Duke's all-time wins list. She needs two more singles wins to move into a tie for fourth along with Julie Exum (135-41).
Chi owns a 226-77 combined singles and doubles wins over her Duke career, which ranks fourth on Duke's all-time charts. To reach third place, she will have to collect 10 more victories to tie Reka Zsilinszka (236).
In other record charts, Chi ranks 13th with 93 overall doubles wins, fifth with 87 dual match singles wins, fifth with 69 dual match doubles wins, third with 44 singles wins at No. 2 position and 10th with 21 singles wins at No. 4 position.
IN SINGLES ACTION
Six different Blue Devils have pushed past the double-digit singles wins ledger this season with Chi leading the way with a 21-3 record. She has collected a 18-2 dual match mark and a 12-1 ACC record. Dating back to the 2018-19 campaign, Chi has won 21 out of her last 22 ACC dual match singles contests.
Beck has collected a 17-4 singles mark and 9-2 ACC ledger. Drummy owns a 17-4 ledger, Bilokin has totaled a 14-9 record, Chen owns a 10-11 record and Berankova has a 10-11 mark.
DOUBLES ACTION
In doubles action, the duo of Beck and Berankova own a team-best 15 doubles wins on the year. Chen/Drummy have won 13 out of the last 15 matches and owns an 14-4 record. The duo is 13-2 in dual match action and 6-1 in the ACC. Beck/Berankova have totaled an 15-3 record, including 12-2 in dual action.
The Blue Devils' duo of Bilokin and Chi have collected a 11-4 ledger, including a 7-3 mark in conference play. Since getting paired together last season, Bilokin/Chi have notched a 15-7 record, including a 9-3 ledger in conference action.
Dating back to last season, Duke has won 20 out of the last 23 doubles points in dual matches.
Due to injuries, Chi and Hannah Zhao saw action for the first time this season and knocked off the 21st-ranked duo of Emma Navarro and Rosie Johanson of Virginia (6-4). Chen and Ema Lazic also played together for the first time and collected a 6-3 win over 41st-ranked Vivian Glozman and Amber O'Dell of Virginia. Chen/Lazic improved to 2-0 on the season against Notre Dame with a 6-0 blanking of Yashna Yellayi/Julia Andreach. Chi/Zhao moved to 5-1 all-time in doubles as a unit but marked the first time since the 2019-20 campaign the tandem took the court together.
DRUMMY, BECK MISSES MISS MATCHES
Drummy missed the North Carolina and Virginia contests with an ankle injury but returned for doubles action against Notre Dame and for both singles and doubles against NC State. Since transferring to Duke, Drummy has totaled a 17-4 singles mark and 8-2 ACC ledger. Drummy is also 16-5 in doubles action, including an 14-2 dual match record. She paired with Berankova and knocked off the 11th-ranked doubles team nationally recently against Notre Dame.
Beck missed the Virginia and Notre Dame matches with a hand injury but returned against NC State and won her singles contest.
BECK REGISTERS TOP-10 WIN
One of the most impressive individual victories of the season came on the road at top-ranked North Carolina on March 19, as Beck collected an impressive singles' win against sixth-ranked Cameron Morra. After dropping a close first set, 6-7, Beck responded by cruising to a 6-0 second set victory. In a back-and-forth super-tiebreaker, Beck came out on top winning, 12-10. It marked the highest singles win of her short career and second against a top-10 opponent. Beck owns a 25-4 dual match record and 11-2 ACC mark over her Duke career. She has won 13 out of her last 15 singles matches.
CHEN AND CHI VERSUS RANKED
Over her four seasons with the Blue Devils, Chen has collected a 106-34 singles record. Of the 106 wins, 42 of them have come against ranked opponents. Chen's 106 career wins currently ranks tied for 19th on the Duke charts and she will move into 18th along with Amanda Granson (108) with two more victories.
Chi has registered 38 wins against ranked foes over her five-year career with the Blue Devils. She knocked off Virginia's 18th-ranked Natasha Subhash and Notre Dame's 74th-ranked Page Freeman recently. The win at Virginia marked the highest win against a ranked opponent since 11th-ranked Carla Touly in Nov. of 2018.
MATCH-CLINCHING WINS
Chi clinched both of the Blue Devil wins against No. 5 Florida State and No. 30 Miami. She has now clinched 24 Duke wins during her tenure. Of the other Duke student-athletes on the 2021 roster, Chen has clinched 13, while Bilokin (10), Zhao (6), Beck (7), Drummy (2) have closed out Blue Devil wins over their career.
CHI RECEIVES ACC POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
The ACC recently announced a list of 52 student-athletes who have been selected as 2021 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship Award recipients with Duke's Chi one of four Blue Devils receiving accolades.
COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS
Due to the impact of COVID-19, Duke University will begin its spring sport program seasons without spectators at home events. Contests played on Duke's campus will include essential game management personnel and broadcast media. Traditional parking lots used by fans on game day will be closed.
SOCIAL MEDIA
For more information on Duke women's tennis, follow the Blue Devils on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by searching for "DukeWTEN".
#GoDuke
No. 18 Duke (15-6, 9-4 ACC) vs. No. 43 Alabama (12-12, 3-10 SEC)
Friday, May 7 | 3 p.m. ET
Waco, Texas l Hurd Tennis Center
May 6, 2021
DURHAM, N.C. – The 18th-ranked Duke women's tennis team is set to open action at the 2021 NCAA Tournament, traveling to Waco, Texas for the first and second rounds hosted by Baylor. The Blue Devils (15-6) have been matched up with No. 43 Alabama (12-12) in the first round and will play on Friday, May 7 at 3 p.m. at the Hurd Tennis Center.
The winner of Friday's match will advance to face the winner of No. 8 seeded Baylor (23-4, 8-1 Big 12) and Texas A&M Corpus-Christi (22-4, 9-2 Southland) in the second round on Saturday at 6 p.m.
"It's very exciting being able to play NCAA's," said redshirt sophomore Georgia Drummy. "Pretty much every team wants to be playing in that tournament, as well as last year with COVID and not being able to play, our team is really pumped and excited to go out and give it our all."
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
Duke will head to its 31st consecutive and 32nd overall NCAA Tournament in search of its second title in school history. The Blue Devils are 70-30 (.700) overall in the national championships, with head coach Jamie Ashworth owning a record of 60-22 (.756) over his tenure at the helm of the program. Duke last won the NCAA Tournament in 2009 over California in College Station, Texas.
THE SERIES WITH ALABAMA
Duke and Alabama will meet for the fourth time in school history with the Blue Devils leading the series, 2-1. The two sides last met on Feb. 8, 2015 at the ITA Indoor Championships, with the Crimson Tide taking a 4-1 victory. The matchup will also mark the second clash between the two programs in the NCAA Tournament, with the Blue Devils registering a 4-0 win over the Crimson Tide in the second round at the 2001 NCAA Tournament in Durham, N.C.
ALABAMA IN THE RANKINGS
Alabama features one player – Isabella Harvison (No. 56) in the singles rankings.
WHAT WOULD BE NEXT?
If Duke advances past Alabama, the Blue Devils will face either eighth-seeded and eighth ranked Baylor (23-4, 8-1 Big 12) or Texas A&M Corpus-Christi (22-4, 9-2 Southland). In the series against Baylor, Duke leads 5-0, with the last matchup resulting in a 4-1 victory in 2013. The Blue Devils have never faced Texas A&M Corpus-Christi.
Should the Blue Devils meet Baylor in the second round, it would be the first postseason matchup between the two programs.
BAYLOR IN THE RANKINGS
The Bears are represented by three-student athletes in the singles rankings: Mel Krywoj (No. 67), Michaela Bayerlova (No. 74) and Livia Kraus (No. 112). In doubles, Krywoj/Angelina Shakhraichuk (No. 31) and Krywoj/Alicia Herrero-Linana (No. 49) are the two ranked duos.
IN THE ITA TEAM RANKINGS
The Blue Devils currently are ranked No. 18 nationally in the latest ITA ledger. Over the last four seasons, Duke has been ranked in the top-10 in 47 of the last 56 ITA rankings.
DUKE IN THE INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS
Duke features four ranked student-athletes in singles – Drummy (19), Chloe Beck (39), Meible Chi (40) and Kelly Chen (49). The Blue Devils also feature six doubles teams on the national list – Beck/Karolina Berankova are No. 9, Margaryta Bilokin/Chi at No. 10, Drummy/Berankova (No. 37), Chen/Drummy (No. 41), Beck/Chi (No. 50) and Hannah Zhao/Chi (No. 58).
EYES ON ORLANDO
No matter what occurs at this season's NCAA Tournament, the Blue Devils season will continue in Orlando, Fla., as the NCAA announced the selections for the 2021 NCAA Singles Championship and Doubles Championship. Beck, Chen and Drummy have been selected to compete in the NCAA Singles Championship, while Chi has been named the first alternate. The Blue Devils are in search of their first individual champion since Mallory Cecil won in 2009. In doubles, Beck/Berankova and Bilokin/Chi will seek the national title.
ALL-ACC HONORS
The Blue Devils were well represented in the last group of All-ACC honorees, as the league announced that Beck, Chen and Drummy were named to the second team, while Chi earned third team accolades. Beck and Drummy earned the first All-ACC honors of their collegiate careers, while Chen was named to list for the third time. Chi became just the 15th player in Blue Devils history to earn four separate All-ACC honors.
BLUE DEVILS BACK HEALTHY HEADING INTO POSTSEASON PLAY
As the Blue Devils head into the NCAA Tournament, Duke is looking for a fresh start after going through a trying stretch earlier in the season with three losses over a span of four matches from March 12-27. During this streak, the Blue Devils were without the services of a healthy Drummy and Beck due to freak injuries.
Since the duo have been back and healthy, Duke closed the regular season with wins against Boston College, Syracuse and Wake Forest and added a win over Louisville in the ACC Tournament.
CHI NETS DUKE RECORD
With her singles win on the road at Syracuse, Chi collected her 42nd all-time ACC singles win to move past Ellyse Hamlin (41) for the Duke record. Chi and Hamlin are the only two Blue Devils to reach the 40-win mark in school history for ACC play. Chi closed the regular season with another ACC victory against Wake Forest to close her career with 43 ACC singles wins.
CHI MOVING UP WINS LIST
A product of Weston, Fla., Chi currently features a 133-37 all-time singles mark, which is good for fifth on Duke's all-time wins list. She needs two more singles wins to move into a tie for fourth along with Julie Exum (135-41).
Chi owns a 226-77 combined singles and doubles wins over her Duke career, which ranks fourth on Duke's all-time charts. To reach third place, she will have to collect 10 more victories to tie Reka Zsilinszka (236).
In other record charts, Chi ranks 13th with 93 overall doubles wins, fifth with 87 dual match singles wins, fifth with 69 dual match doubles wins, third with 44 singles wins at No. 2 position and 10th with 21 singles wins at No. 4 position.
IN SINGLES ACTION
Six different Blue Devils have pushed past the double-digit singles wins ledger this season with Chi leading the way with a 21-3 record. She has collected a 18-2 dual match mark and a 12-1 ACC record. Dating back to the 2018-19 campaign, Chi has won 21 out of her last 22 ACC dual match singles contests.
Beck has collected a 17-4 singles mark and 9-2 ACC ledger. Drummy owns a 17-4 ledger, Bilokin has totaled a 14-9 record, Chen owns a 10-11 record and Berankova has a 10-11 mark.
DOUBLES ACTION
In doubles action, the duo of Beck and Berankova own a team-best 15 doubles wins on the year. Chen/Drummy have won 13 out of the last 15 matches and owns an 14-4 record. The duo is 13-2 in dual match action and 6-1 in the ACC. Beck/Berankova have totaled an 15-3 record, including 12-2 in dual action.
The Blue Devils' duo of Bilokin and Chi have collected a 11-4 ledger, including a 7-3 mark in conference play. Since getting paired together last season, Bilokin/Chi have notched a 15-7 record, including a 9-3 ledger in conference action.
Dating back to last season, Duke has won 20 out of the last 23 doubles points in dual matches.
Due to injuries, Chi and Hannah Zhao saw action for the first time this season and knocked off the 21st-ranked duo of Emma Navarro and Rosie Johanson of Virginia (6-4). Chen and Ema Lazic also played together for the first time and collected a 6-3 win over 41st-ranked Vivian Glozman and Amber O'Dell of Virginia. Chen/Lazic improved to 2-0 on the season against Notre Dame with a 6-0 blanking of Yashna Yellayi/Julia Andreach. Chi/Zhao moved to 5-1 all-time in doubles as a unit but marked the first time since the 2019-20 campaign the tandem took the court together.
DRUMMY, BECK MISSES MISS MATCHES
Drummy missed the North Carolina and Virginia contests with an ankle injury but returned for doubles action against Notre Dame and for both singles and doubles against NC State. Since transferring to Duke, Drummy has totaled a 17-4 singles mark and 8-2 ACC ledger. Drummy is also 16-5 in doubles action, including an 14-2 dual match record. She paired with Berankova and knocked off the 11th-ranked doubles team nationally recently against Notre Dame.
Beck missed the Virginia and Notre Dame matches with a hand injury but returned against NC State and won her singles contest.
BECK REGISTERS TOP-10 WIN
One of the most impressive individual victories of the season came on the road at top-ranked North Carolina on March 19, as Beck collected an impressive singles' win against sixth-ranked Cameron Morra. After dropping a close first set, 6-7, Beck responded by cruising to a 6-0 second set victory. In a back-and-forth super-tiebreaker, Beck came out on top winning, 12-10. It marked the highest singles win of her short career and second against a top-10 opponent. Beck owns a 25-4 dual match record and 11-2 ACC mark over her Duke career. She has won 13 out of her last 15 singles matches.
CHEN AND CHI VERSUS RANKED
Over her four seasons with the Blue Devils, Chen has collected a 106-34 singles record. Of the 106 wins, 42 of them have come against ranked opponents. Chen's 106 career wins currently ranks tied for 19th on the Duke charts and she will move into 18th along with Amanda Granson (108) with two more victories.
Chi has registered 38 wins against ranked foes over her five-year career with the Blue Devils. She knocked off Virginia's 18th-ranked Natasha Subhash and Notre Dame's 74th-ranked Page Freeman recently. The win at Virginia marked the highest win against a ranked opponent since 11th-ranked Carla Touly in Nov. of 2018.
MATCH-CLINCHING WINS
Chi clinched both of the Blue Devil wins against No. 5 Florida State and No. 30 Miami. She has now clinched 24 Duke wins during her tenure. Of the other Duke student-athletes on the 2021 roster, Chen has clinched 13, while Bilokin (10), Zhao (6), Beck (7), Drummy (2) have closed out Blue Devil wins over their career.
CHI RECEIVES ACC POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
The ACC recently announced a list of 52 student-athletes who have been selected as 2021 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship Award recipients with Duke's Chi one of four Blue Devils receiving accolades.
COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS
Due to the impact of COVID-19, Duke University will begin its spring sport program seasons without spectators at home events. Contests played on Duke's campus will include essential game management personnel and broadcast media. Traditional parking lots used by fans on game day will be closed.
SOCIAL MEDIA
For more information on Duke women's tennis, follow the Blue Devils on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by searching for "DukeWTEN".
#GoDuke
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